Ruth Polyblank

Ruth Polyblank, Vice President, Insurance, Mastercard

Ruth is Vice President and Partnerships Lead for Insurance at Mastercard.

Ruth has specific responsibility for identifying new opportunities in the global insurance market by leveraging Mastercard’s existing capabilities and assets to innovate through collaboration with the industry.

As an insurance marketing and strategy expert, Ruth holds over 20 years’ experience and has worked with traditional and insurtech businesses to design vertical propositions and growth strategies, with particular expertise in the SME sector.

Ruth previously held leadership and management roles at Chubb, CLS, EY and Fusion.

As well as her professional accomplishments, Ruth is a regular speaker, author and mentor within the insurance sector, she was co-author of ‘The InsurTech book’, was named by ‘WeAreTheCity’ a Top 50 Woman in Tech 2018 and is also an Ambassador for the CII Insuring Women’s Futures programme.